Fresh proof that New York’s leaders are betraying – Latest News
CUNY commencement charges are falling fast — the fruit of the state Board of Regents’ battle on requirements with town Department of Education’s keen cooperation.
Across CUNY, commencement charges plunged about a tenth these final 5 years, a drop from 62% in 2022 to 55.6% this previous educational 12 months at four-year schools and from 38.9% to 35.5% at two-year faculties.
CUNY’s much-admired three-year undergrad degree, the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, noticed grad charges collapse from 44% to 34.5%.
Since CUNY college students are overwhelming the product of New York City public faculties, that is clear proof the Department of Education, after eight years of failed management below Mayor Bill de Blasio adopted by extended COVID faculty closures because of the United Federation of Teachers, has been failing to arrange its graduates for school.
Ex-Gov. George Pataki is true to additionally blame the Regents-run State Education Department and Gov. Kathy Hochul’s failure to hunt accountability, calling the Regents’ current transfer to finish the exams-based Regents diploma “incredibly stupid” and a cynical bid “to disguise the fact that too many New York state schools are failing to educate our kids.”
“Instead of doing the appropriate testing so that corrective measures could be taken to improve [kids’ performance], they simply get rid of the tests to hide their failure,” explains Pataki.
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Scrapping the Regents diploma outright adopted years of SED dumbing down the exams to keep commencement numbers up; now they’ve eradicated the bar solely.
Yes, the “smart” college students can nonetheless take Regents exams to show superior proficiency — however now it’ll be straightforward for faculties to look OK although they demand nothing of the children, who’ll largely solely understand they’ve been robbed later on.
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Thanks to a fluke of the state Constitution, selecting the Regents is de facto up to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who bought his soul to the standards-hating academics unions to accumulate his post — however Hochul, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier than her, may and may have at the least referred to as out the betrayal of New York’s youngsters.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani plainly gained’t carry a finger: He selected failed-upward functionary Kamar Samuels as his faculties chancellor, and exhibits zero curiosity in schooling past increasing day care.
Maybe that’s sensible, since all of the adults with any duty for public schooling on this state appear to suppose that day care is all the colleges actually need to offer.
